Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeremy Lea wrote: It was a local FreeBSD feature; now it is part of the official GNU grep. Any chance of -R coming back too? it is already there (-r) /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Max Khon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It was a local FreeBSD feature; now it is part of the official GNU grep. Any chance of -R coming back too? it is already there (-r) Hmm. Somehow I dislike name-changes of params. :-( Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: It was a local FreeBSD feature; now it is part of the official GNU grep. Any chance of -R coming back too? it is already there (-r) Hmm. Somehow I dislike name-changes of params. :-( GREP guys decided to use -r (which was

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:28:30PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Yes, that's why all this fuss have taken place ;=) WOOHOO! I agree with Alex Langer, though. -R - -r gets on my nerves. But I suppose it is consistent with `rm`, just not `cp`.. hmm, consistency. -- Will Andrews [EMAIL

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 08:28:30PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Yes, that's why all this fuss have taken place ;=) WOOHOO! I agree with Alex Langer, though. -R - -r gets on my nerves. But I suppose it is consistent with `rm`,

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-02-01 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I agree with Alex Langer, though. -R - -r gets on my nerves. But I suppose it is consistent with `rm`, just not `cp`.. hmm, consistency. In fact, it is consistent with GNU grep ;=) Old -a and -R were FreeBSD extensions that have gone now.

HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-01-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! Under a big pressure from the FreeBSD community, GNU grep maintainers released grep-2.4d, which has a new option -I, a short equivalent to --binary-files='without-match'. Grep 2.4d is now in the source tree (Approved by: jkh). This, I hope, will finally close this can of worms ;=) Enjoy,

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-01-31 Thread Will Andrews
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:54:00PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Under a big pressure from the FreeBSD community, GNU grep maintainers released grep-2.4d, which has a new option -I, a short equivalent to --binary-files='without-match'. Is this also equivalent to the old grep's -a option? I

Re: HEADS UP: GNU grep 2.4d

2000-01-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:02:29PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:54:00PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Under a big pressure from the FreeBSD community, GNU grep maintainers released grep-2.4d, which has a new option -I, a short equivalent to